Parenting Quotes · Page 401

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

— Ronnie Corbett

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

— Michael Curtiz

“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”

— K.X. Song

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

— Jennifer Hudson

“May the Father judge him justly. Now, there's an awful prospect.”

— George R.R. Martin

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

— Dominic Cooper

“Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.”

— Libba Bray

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

— Nicholas Sparks

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of…

— Louis L'Amour

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy…

— Anne Lamott

Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. "I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her." "If…

— Holly Black

If you're at uni just because your parents have said so... There's a lot of success stories of people who have dropped…

— Eniola Aluko

“I thought of every strong woman I knew about—my mother, Muriel, my best friends . . . Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . . I would not back…

— Gwen Hayes

A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the…

— Sigmund Freud

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea. May your name be glorified and be praised.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A woman in the audience asked [Barack] Obama about her mother. Her mother was 101 years old and was in need of…

— Nat Hentoff

My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little…

— Dan Aykroyd

Parents, first and foremost, it is important to... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also…

— Viswanathan Anand

“Judging Natalie as my mother had judged me was, I felt like telling her son, just my ass-backward way of showing love.…

— Alice Sebold

“She had smiled her way through the births and had offered the new mothers the support and the medical care that they…

— Jodi Picoult

“Like any stepfather made entirely of bread, Loaf had some curious habits. He would lie completely still for incredibly long periods of…

— Anonymous

“George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her…

— Mette Ivie Harrison

I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception…

— Ben Roethlisberger

My father said that I was lower than a dog, because even a dog believes in God.

— Ari Shaffir

Money can buy you everything except a father and a mother.

— Vikrant Parsai

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

— Dakota Johnson

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

— Dwyane Wade

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.

— Schuyler Fisk

“the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us,  w a land flowing with milk and honey.”

— Anonymous

I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world.

— Liza Soberano

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.”

— Jeane Westin

My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

— Ted Danson

I'm having everything. I'm a vegetarian, too. But in my mother's house, I eat whatever I'm served.

— Andy Kaufman

My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.

— Anonymous

Oh no, I can't say anything else until I have a parent or lawyer present.

— Gretchen

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

— Roger Ross Williams

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

— Steve Martin

Our society needs good women. We need good mothers. And we need good families.

— Brett Cooper